Milestones
Hana (age 3) has started pedalling by herself on her bike! This may seem like a minor triumph to some of you....but until you have spent many `o afternoon hunched over a bike...pushing your child around in circles...you won't understand how glorious it was to watch Hana pedal slowly away from me!
Hana is also Victoriously sporting big girl undies. A day I never thought would come. I had visions of pull ups in wedding photos! The Story goes as Fallows:
I put Hana on the potty one day and realized we only had one pull up left! "Hana...this is the last pull up!" Hana replied...not with her usual, "we better go to the store," but instead with, "I better be potty trained then, I'll go pick out some undies!" Were my ears deceiving me... Had I passed out on the bathroom floor from shock...could this be true??? And we have been virtually accident and pull-up free for about three weeks now! Hallelujah!
Makayla is 5 now...(birthday blog pending)...which according to her....being 5 means that she is old enough to get married. When I ask to whom...she says Elias ( a little boy from her old preschool.) I have every bit of confidence that she is not planning a great escape and running to Vegas with this boy! But 5 is pretty old. She has also decided what she wants to be when she grows up. "an Adult," she says...with a very serious and 'I've made up my mind' way. With so many immature people in the world...I think she's got a pretty good idea there!
Setbacks
Hana has been getting up and wanting to get in our bed every night! Dj does most of the damage control here. Takes her potty and tries to convince her that her bed is every bit as "cozy" as ours. Eventually, (after crying and waking up the entire house), she falls asleep! She doesn't have a fever....She does eventually stay in her own bed! How can we get her to stay there...Aaarggg...it's bumming me out. Any moms out there with words of wisdom?
Me
I'm trying really hard to be sweet patient loving mom...eager to get on their level...talk things out. With every few days of being patient ...comes a backlash of a really bad day of ......"just leave me alone and figure it out." So I've decided maybe I should have spurts of patience through out the day...mixed with "figure it out." To equal out the days....or something! Currently both my children are screaming from their time out spots!!! So I'm off to tend to that! Will they get patient mommy...or other? It's any ones call at this point! Oh wait....now I hear giggling from the other room....this means that they are being naughty...probably not in their spots anymore, where they are suppose to be...but it does sound so much better than the crying and screaming....so I think I'll let it go!
Random Out!!!
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So I have the set backs in common with you- and not so much the Milestones these days.... Jake is going through some wierd thing (I'll elaborate in person) and has started wetting his pants again... I, on the other hand, have learnt a lot about patience lately. God is really teaching me a ton of things. He is scraping away my blinders and is showing me LOTS of things I need to work hard at. I hate being in this place!!! Maybe I'll stop now and just make a post of my own!!
I hear that coffee helps Kerri! I just made myslef a mocha and showed my girls how to practice thier inside voice...took a shower..and counted to 10..asked the Lord to HELP! And I'm feeling much better ;)
I wish I had more advice....but as you know, I live in my own chaotic world where at any given moment someone has a HUGE problem that can't be worked out on their own. Right now Marshall and Ella have taken every pillow from the entire house into the playroom and are jumping onto their huge pile from the couch..I'm trying to make a healthy dinner(OK not so healthy) and clean before Matt gets home...and I'm letting Sadie watch Dora at 7:00 at night so she can be at least 20 feet away from me for 10 minutes! Oh..I do have an idea about the getting in bed thing though. We always put a sleeping bag on the floor in our room if the kids needed to come in at night. It worked sometimes. Gotta go!
I'm am honored that you want to hang my photography in your house! And that you still check my blog even though there is all that signing in jazz now!! We'll talk about the photo.... I know there is a birthday of yours coming up so you might have to wait....... (mine is this Tuesday- by the way. I will be sooo old.)
I am with you my sister. Who knew it would be this hard. Secretly when our moms acted so happy when we announced our frist pregnancies, I am sure that inside they were like, YES! Now she will get hers.
Milestones and setbacks always seem to come together, don't they? Well, no advice from me, as I'll be the one seeking it from you in a few years, but you can be sure that I'll be praying for you and the family!
Lots of love!
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